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It actually gets worse.  There's an episode where the black chap runs off into the jungle where there aren't any cameras except the one he's carrying, and we still see him from different camera angles.  It also ends on a cliffhanger and then got cancelled, so it goes absolutely nowhere.  Dreadful show.

Battle Scars, though he only shows up from issue 2 onwards.  It surprises me not at all that middle class politically correct SBT is in favor of this Disney-mandated Affirmative Action dictate.

Those are lousy stories, though - the idea of making Nick Fury look like the movie version is still sound.  As for Beeny, many half-caucasian third generation North American Latinos have the skin tone of a sub Saharan African.  Everyone knows that.

Surely a black Nick Fury isn't a bad thing in and of itself?
If the stories are lousy, impenetrable and mired in cross-continuity that the books refuse to explain because a box down in the corner "doesn't appear in movies" or whatever, then that's arguably the problem with books, not that Nick Fury has a tan now.  Probably doesn't help to attract newcomers if six months can't go by without a crossover, either - there's no way to just buy one monthly title and leave it at that anymore, as if you go into a comic book store you're getting into a hobby, not buying a single book to read.

Fry a couple of farls and use those instead of bread - then maybe we'll talk.

[Wine]

Well it is what it is.
Wine - I know beer doesn't taste great either, but wine is like beer into which someone has poured vinegar.  NO.
Chicken - it's not for me.
Simping Detective - haha like Singing Detective but Simping is a thing in Dredd so that pun can at best be a one-off five page story that might be vaguely amusing twenty-six years ago when Singing Detective is a relevant pop cultural element HOLY FUCK THEY ARE STILL MAKING THIS COMIC IN 2012.  Not for me.
Also Galactica reboot for me: obnoxious and ham-fisted, it imitates but never innovates and unlike the one with the creepy monkey robot couldn't pretend to be a kids' show so it could get away with a lack of black people and all the women being sexy robots, which for some reason no-one cared about anyway because at the end of the day it really is only sci-fi.  Also every time Apollo is on the screen I get all tourettes going "FUCK OFF JUST FUCK OFF FUCK OFF NOW YOU ARE AWFUL JUST AWFUL JUST STOP YOU FUCKING AWFUL ACTOR" (see also: female Starbuck).  Though I appreciate it giving Michael Hogan's career a shot in the arm, this doesn't excuse that its premise, cast, and overall story arc is identical to 1980s kids cartoon Robotech.
Greg Rucka's Batwoman comics: a butch, sexually agressive tattooed and pierced bodybuilder with daddy issues is apparently a groundbreaking portrayal of a lesbian.  Okay.
Walking Dead.  Liked the comics until the tv show came out, then the shrill fandom ruined both for me.  But not you guys - you guys are okay.  It's those other jerks I'm on about.

I liked the first one but never bothered with Hellboy 2.  Thought it looked boring.

the US comic industry is run by idiots who can't see beyond pandering to their existing, dwindling fanboy base.

To be fair, this is their job.  If they actually knew how to sell something to regular people, they'd be working in an industry with a future.

Pfister is also arguing about functionality over spectacle, which is a disingenuous argument in the context of the Avengers.
SFX shots on proprietary sets and sound stages require a different kind of skill set to basic cinematography and knowing how to frame a shot of Chicago is quite different to filming a green-screen fistfight.  Whedon knows how to do the latter, while Pfister has yet to prove himself - a common complaint about the Nolan Bat-flicks is their visually confusing fight scenes.

Trades are arguably a different market entirely.  I'm not saying there isn't an overlap with monthly readers (people who buy the individual comics when serialised and then buy the trade collection), but it's a small one.  The Incredible Hercules sold like fuck all in the monthly market, but the trades regularly hit the NY Times best-seller charts, for instance, and likewise Marvel's all ages lines, which sold like crap to monthly readers but got saved by high trade sales even though the individual issues were regularly selling something like 10,000 copies less than Marvel's break-even point.  See also: Sentinel, Mary Jane, Runaways.

Trust me, TB, you do not need to lecture a man who draws comics about doing something for love rather than actual money - but the only people who get into a job where everyone hates them for the love of the job alone are professional wrestlers who play heels, and even then sooner or later they get to play a babyface.  Cameron does not get to play the good guy, ipso fatso he is in it for the money.

Except that thinking "how will what I do next affect the long term economic and political health of Britain as a whole?" is Cameron and Clegg's bloody job.

This is naive.
Someone pays you 5 pounds to do something and someone else offers 10 pounds to do something else, which do you take and who do you work for?  Now change "5 pounds" to "a civil servant's wage" and "10 pounds" to "consultancy fee" and you get the idea.  Cameron does not work for you or me or any other British subject, he works for the people who give his party money and will pay him fat consultancy fees when he leaves number 10 in a year or two, and his job is to think of ways to obfuscate this as best he can, not to make our lives better.  He does not do that job for the good of his health or to make friends with poor people, he does it to make money and we all know that yet still expect him to act contrary to his best interests and I am suggesting this might be unreasonable on our part.
Okay, yes, he is dismantling health services and will profit from the murder of the sick and vulnerable, but what did we expect, really?  Did anyone, anywhere really think "Oh good, David Cameron is running things, now things will be better?"  Things are getting worse just like we knew they would, yet still we kvetch like we expected otherwise.

It's about normal(ish) people in an extraordinary situation. They're exhausted, hungry, in shock and scared so of course they're going to make mistakes and not think like super intelligent comic fanboys all the time.

They were exhausted when they made their clever plan to systematically sweep and clear the yard, and that went off without a hitch - when they were clearing the prison they'd had their first decent night's sleep in months.  The first scene of the episode is even the group exhausted and still clearing a darkened building full of zombies.

Lazy writing, stupid characters.

It still causes data to skew towards crossovers, though.  I recall getting stuff like Secret Invasion: She Hulk in my order box for some reason.  They ordered that and it affected the sales charts even though I threw it back without a second thought.
As I say, it's not an ideal system to measure what a store orders rather than what it actually sells, and the publishers know this to the point that at one stage they were offering retailers incentives to return the covers of the unsold issues of their rivals' books just so that they could have an accurate picture of how badly those rivals were doing (presumably by subtracting the number of covers returned from the official "sales" numbers).

Just playing devil's advocate here, but perhaps we're being unreasonable in wishing cancer upon David Cameron and a painful hammer related bludgeoning on Nick Clegg just for wanting to line their own pockets at the expense of the rest of the citizenry and the well-being of the country?  They're in a paid job and the aim in any paid job is to make as much cash as possible before you're out the door one way or another and that's what they're doing.  I mean, I wouldn't expect a McDonalds employee to stop and think "how will what I do next affect the long term economic and political health of Britain as a whole?" every time they go to mop up sick or unblock a toilet, and maybe we are being unreasonable to expect that of the Tories.

That is so weird - you would expect someone with a vested interest in seeing the Avengers fail to have had a higher opinion of it.